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Summary Personal stories about the experience of working for a doctorate Description A collection of stories from a diverse group of teachers in UK higher education who have all completed a PhD. They narrate their experience of doctoral research, the relationship with supervisors and the hurdles they overcame

STELLARnet Deliverables Repository D1.1 The STELLAR vision and strategy statement D1.2 Trends in Connecting Learners. First Research & Technology Scouting Report. D1.3 1st report on the Delphi study D1.3A Additional report on the STELLAR Delphi study. D1.4 The 2nd Grand Challenge Vision and Strategy Report D1.5 Trends in Classroom Orchestration. Second Research & Technology Scouting Report. D4.1 Establishing the Doctoral Academy D4.2 Establishing the scholarship programme D4.4 Achievements and Perspectives (2010) in Building Next Generation Capacity

"For the last couple of decades, exercises to assess the extent to which university research is excellent have been all the rage. The UK led the way with the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) to be followed by Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong among others. With the passage of time, increasing amounts of research funding tend to be allocated on the basis of the results of these exercises and, so important have they become to individual universities, these exercises now drive the research cycle in the same way as national or general elections drive the economic cycles of individual states."